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A review by trike
Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
3.0
If Philip K. Dick wrote The Matrix, it would be this book. I had my doubts at the beginning, but by the end I liked it.
ETA: The chief reason I think this book closely aligns with Philip K. Dick’s work is because in his stuff the ideas are paramount and the nuts and bolts of the narrative are secondary, but if I were forced to draw an exact parallel of “if you like that then try this”, it would be with [b:Slaughterhouse-Five|4981|Slaughterhouse-Five|Kurt Vonnegut Jr.|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1440319389l/4981._SY75_.jpg|1683562] by Vonnegut.
It has that same sort of dreamlike narrative of jumping perspectives where it might or might not be about being subjected to alien examination, or just someone (whether human or computer) experiencing a mental break from reality. Basically a literature Rorschach test.
ETA: The chief reason I think this book closely aligns with Philip K. Dick’s work is because in his stuff the ideas are paramount and the nuts and bolts of the narrative are secondary, but if I were forced to draw an exact parallel of “if you like that then try this”, it would be with [b:Slaughterhouse-Five|4981|Slaughterhouse-Five|Kurt Vonnegut Jr.|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1440319389l/4981._SY75_.jpg|1683562] by Vonnegut.
It has that same sort of dreamlike narrative of jumping perspectives where it might or might not be about being subjected to alien examination, or just someone (whether human or computer) experiencing a mental break from reality. Basically a literature Rorschach test.